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JOURNAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 17, 1880.

The annual meeting of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution was held this day at 10 o'clock a.m., in the Regents' room.

Present, the Chancellor, Chief-Justice Waite; Hon. Wm. A. Wheeler, Vice-President of the United States; Hon. H. Hamlin, Hon. R. E. Withers, Hon. N. Booth, Hon. J. A. Garfield, Hon. Hiester Clymer, Hon. Joseph E. Johnston, Dr. John Maclean, Dr. Asa Gray, Hon. Peter Parker, President Noah Porter, General Wm. T. Sherman, and the Secretary, Professor Baird.

(Dr. H. Coppée, the only member of the Board absent, was accidentally detained on the road, and did not reach Washington until after the adjournment of the Board.)

The Secretary made the following announcements relative to the appointment of members of the Board of Regents.

The vacancy in the Board occasioned by the expiration of the term of Hon. A. A. Sargent, of California had been filled on the 21st of March, 1879, by the appointment by the President of the Senate of Hon. Newton Booth, of California.

On the 4th of April, 1879, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. S. J. Randall, had reappointed as Regents Hon. H. Clymer of Pennsylvania and Hon. J. A. Garfield of Ohio, and had appointed Hon. Joseph E. Johnston of Virginia vice Hon. Alex. H. Stephens, who had declined reappointment.

A joint resolution had passed Congress and been approved by the President of the United States December 19, 1879, providing that the "vacancies in the Board of Regents of the class other than the members of Congress shall be filled by the reappointment of Asa Gray of Masschusetts, Henry Coppée of Pennsylvania, John Maclean of New Jersey, and Peter Parker of the city of Washington, whose terms have expired."

The minutes of the Board of January 16, 1879, were read, and, after slight amendment, approved.

The Secretary presented a statement of the financial condition of the Institution, and stated that in order to save time this statement and all the accounts of the Institution had been referred to the Executive Committee.

Dr. Parker, from the Executive Committee, presented and read the annual report of the committee relative to the receipts and expenditures

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